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7 verbatim mandatory provisions from 20-07-b.
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. • Domestic Violence - Geographic Assignment for Injunctions for Protection (other than Domestic Violence) ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Upon the filing of an Injunction for Protection Against Repeat Violence, Sexual Violence or Dating Violence pursuant to F.S. 784.046, or a Petition for Injunction Against Stalking pursuant to F.S. 784.048, if the clerk has determined that no related cases exist, the clerk shall geographically assign the cases to the county judges assigned to hear civil cases in Titusville (North), Viera and Melbourne (Central) according to the following criteria: 1. • The Petitioner’s address shall be utilized to determine assignment by zip code. • If Petitioner does not reside in Brevard County, or Petitioner’s address is unavailable, the Respondent’s address shall be utilized to determine assignment. 2. • If the clerk has determined that a related case exists pursuant to existing rules, then the clerk shall forward the Petition to the Family Division Circuit Judge to whom the related case is assigned, for review and determination for coordination with the related case before the assigned Family Division Circuit Judge. • In that case, the related injunction matter shall be assigned to the Family Division Circuit Judge. • If a closed case is reopened, the clerk shall reassign the case to the County Court Judge currently presiding in the civil division pursuant to the geographic assignment procedures set forth herein, using the most current address available for each party in making this determination. • If both parties no longer reside in Brevard County, the clerk may use any prior address of the Petitioner to determine the proper assignment. -- 1 of 2 -- 2 This procedure shall be effective for relevant cases filed or reopened on or after January 1, 2019.
Domestic Violence - Geographic Assignment for Injunctions for Protection (other than Domestic Violence) ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Upon the filing of an Injunction for Protection Against Repeat Violence, Sexual Violence or Dating Violence pursuant to F.S. 784.046, or a Petition for Injunction Against Stalking pursuant to F.S. 784.048, if the clerk has determined that no related cases exist, the clerk shall geographically assign the cases to the county judges assigned to hear civil cases in Titusville (North), Viera and Melbourne (Central) according to the following criteria: 1.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 1e1baf452ba8b73950743876f1871f7b274f91bd1651b82c5c0dabfd3d3fbf40 (100814 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it.
The Eighteenth Judicial Circuit (Seminole and Brevard) requires cover letters in PDF format and proposed orders in .docx format using DJMCA formatting codes, submitted through the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal.
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